Wing War
Platform: TI-99/4A
Region: USA
Media: Cartridge
Controller: Joystick
Genre: Action - Fantasy
Gametype: Licensed
Release Year: 1983
Developer: Imagic
Publisher: Texas Instruments
Players: 1
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Wing War is an action game where you control a dragon. Beginning in your underground cave, your goal is to capture a sparkling diamond. To do this, you will first need to unlock the secret passage by bringing a fire, water and air crystal back to your cave. Crystals can be found by exploring the various locations available, usually you will need to destroy one of the many enemies so they turn into a crystal. Fire and water crystals can not be in the cave alone at the same time, an air crystal must be placed between them; so you will need to bring back the crystals in the order fire, air, water or water, air, fire. Once you've done this a super crystal is formed unlocking the secret passage so you can try to get the diamond! Your dragon has a limited amount of energy; being hit by enemies will cause the energy to deplete, and the game ends when all of your dragons have lost all their energy.

Trivia:

You can blast through the bottom portion of the wall in the lower right part of the cavern. Just keep shooting fireballs at the wall and maneuver your way through. This leads to a secret tunnel with 2 ghosts (see last screen shot above), and beyond that an enemy that speaks "attack if you dare" where you can get all kinds of goodies after defeating him. 

According to an internal TI release schedule, this game was released on 12/8/1983 and was one of the last planned releases after TI left the market.

An early prototype version of this game exists with a nice multi-colored dragon, rounder shaped crystals, and a different status bar on the bottom of the screen. In addition it lacks the volcano which can be found in the final version of the game. While the dragon might look nicer in this early version, he has no animation at all. It can only be assumed that either animation would have been added later or that the dragon was composed of too many sprites to make nice smooth movements. In the end, the dragon that came out in the final version of the game was nicer than the more colorful one due to its very well done animation. Also, the animated dragon in the status bar was a nice touch by whoever put that feature in.

Flap! was the original name for Wing War.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/ti-994a/wing-war
